Five Years of Running a Systems Reading Group at Microsoft
Article URL: https://armaansood.com/posts/systems-reading-group/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47479627 Points: 146 # Comments: 42
The best early deals you can already grab from Amazon’s Big Spring Sale
Amazon’s Prime Day sale may arrive earlier than usual this year, but there’s a deal event happening much sooner: Amazon’s annual Big Spring Sale, which is happening March 25th through the 31st. While it won’t be as big as Prime Day or Black Friday, it does offer you a chance to save money at a ti...
Elon Musk unveils chip manufacturing plans for SpaceX and Tesla
Elon Musk recently outlined ambitious plans for a chip-building collaboration Tesla and SpaceX — but he has a history of overpromising.
TechCrunch Mobility: Uber everywhere, all at once
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
Micron predicts that cars will need 300GB of RAM — memory-laden vehicles could exacerbate shortages but create 'robust long-term growth in automotive memory demand'
Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra predicts that self-driving vehicles would require at least 300GB of RAM, meaning increasing demand could drive another memory chip shortage as these cars are essentially AI supercomputers on wheels.
Apple’s busy March continues with three notable arrivals this week
Apple has had a jam-packed March so far after launching seven new products and surprisingly announcing an eighth. Looking ahead, there’s even more to come from Apple before the month is over, including three things to watch for this week. more…
MAUI Is Coming to Linux
Article URL: https://avaloniaui.net/blog/maui-avalonia-preview-1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478687 Points: 22 # Comments: 4
Elon Musk unveils $20 billion ‘TeraFab’ chip project to make chips, memory, and package processors all under one roof — targets a terawatt of annual compute
Tesla and SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk, announced Saturday night that his TeraFab semiconductor project will be built on the Tesla campus in eastern Travis County, Austin, Texas, as a joint venture.
You are not your job
Article URL: https://jry.io/writing/you-are-not-your-job/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478548 Points: 107 # Comments: 134
GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information
GrapheneOS, the privacy-focused Android fork, said in a post on X on Friday that it will not comply with emerging laws requiring operating systems to collect user age data at setup.
The Future of Version Control
Article URL: https://bramcohen.com/p/manyana Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478401 Points: 88 # Comments: 36
I hate: Programming Wayland applications
Article URL: https://www.p4m.dev/posts/29/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478298 Points: 126 # Comments: 93
Delve accused of misleading customers with ‘fake compliance’
An anonymous Substack post accuses compliance startup Delve of “falsely” convincing “hundreds of customers they were compliant” with privacy and security regulations.
California scientists 'FlyTrap attack' on DJI drones demonstrated — patterned umbrellas lure autonomous drones close enough to be captured or even induced to crash
Researchers at UC Irvine have demonstrated a pattered umbrella-based drone capture and crashing technique.
iBook Clamshell
Article URL: https://www.ibook-clamshell.com/index.php/en/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47477938 Points: 49 # Comments: 36
VoidStealer malware steals Chrome master key via debugger trick
An information stealer called VoidStealer uses a new approach to bypass Chrome's Application-Bound Encryption (ABE) and extract the master key for decrypting sensitive data stored in the browser. [...]
Grab the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 XT for $799.99 — comes bundled with 1000W PSU and free copy of Crimson Desert
AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT based on the RDNA 4 architecture is currently the company's most powerful graphics card offering impressive 1440p and 4K gaming performance.
There can (still) be only one: Highlander is 40
Sure, it's cheesy in many respects, but its central mythology still resonates even decades later.
Two brothers convicted of running ghost gun factory that produced untraceable 3D printed firearms — used 3D printers to build gun frames while associates purchased other parts on eBay
Brothers Brandon and Justin Nudelman have been convicted of running a ghost gun factory, with the group using 3D printers to print gun frames while purchasing other parts online to build and sell untraceable weapons.
Musk says he’s building Terafab chip plant in Austin, Texas
Grok, how do you make chips? | Image: Laura Normand / The Verge Elon Musk announced plans to build a Terafab plant in Austin, Texas, that will be jointly run by Tesla and SpaceX. The goal is to eventually build chips at scale for robotics, artificial intelligence, and space-based data centers f...